David Garrett, 1980 | The Devil's violinist

David Garrett (born David Christian Bongartz) is a record-breaking German pop and crossover violinist and recording artist.

Garrett was born in Aachen, Germany, to an American prima ballerina, Dove Garrett, and a German jurist, Georg Bongartz. He adopted his mother's maiden name as his stage name, as "it was more pronounceable".

Séverine Pineaux, 1960 | Fantasy painter

Séverine Pineaux is a French🎨 Illustrator, painter and designer.

After her beginnings in fantasy illustration, she specialized in magical representations where trees mingle with creatures and men.

His Ysambre series, composed of two volumes, "Le monde-arbre" and "La femme-graine", won an award🎨 at the Printemps des Légendes de Monthermé.

Séverine Pineaux has always evolved in a world of fairyland and heroic-fantasy.

René Magritte | Quotes / Aforismi

• "To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been".
• "Essere surrealisti significa escludere dalla tua mente ogni ricordo di ciò che hai visto ed essere sempre alla ricerca di ciò che non è mai stato".
• "Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist".
• L'arte evoca il mistero senza il quale il mondo non esisterebbe".
• "Life obliges me to do something, so I paint".
• "La vita mi obbliga a fare qualcosa, quindi dipingo".

Catherine Abel, 1966 | Art Déco painter

Australian artist, Catherine Abel is renowned internationally for her striking figurative oil paintings. Combining the sleek, stylised geometry of the Art Déco period with the clarity, richness of colour, and depth of light of the Italian Renaissance Masters, her works are powerfully seductive compositions of beauty, elegance, strength and grace.

Long inspired by the art movements and the bold angular shapes of the early 20th century, Australian artist Catherine Abel creates striking figurative oil paintings.

Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955) Impressionist painter

Николай Иванович Фешин was a Russian-born American painter, known for his portraits and works featuring Native Americans.

After graduating with the highest marks from the Imperial Academy of Arts and traveling in Europe under a Prix de Rome, he returned to his native Kazan, where he taught and painted.

He exhibited his first work in the United States in 1910 in an international exhibition in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Romel de la Torre, 1963

Born in the Philippines in a community of artists, Romel de la Torre’s artistic interest started at a very young age.

With the encouragement of his parents he began sketching the world around him.

Romel and his family migrated to the United States where he began going to museums studying and learning on his own; works of famous artists like Sargent, Sorolla, Fechin, Mucha and the American Impressionists.

Reiji Hiramatsu, 1941 | Monet and Water Lilies

Reiji Hiramatsu 平松 礼二 is a Japanese🎨 Nihonga painter born in Tokyo.

His father was a civil servant who moved the family to Nagoya in 1946, where Reiji Hiramatsu would grow up.

Early on he developed interest in the traditional painting techniques of Nihonga, however on behest of his parents he first studied law and economics at the Aichi University.

Alexandre Cabanel | Michelangelo in his Studio, 1859

Alexandre Cabanel🎨

1823-1889

Academic Classical painter and teacher

Michelangelo🎨 in His Studio, Visited by Pope Julius II

79 x 133 cms | 31 x 521/4ins

Oil on canvas
Musée Goupil, Bordeaux